June 2020

A Summer of Stories – Self-directed Learning All Around Sometimes it seems as if stories just need to be told. For me, I often notice a tidbit here and a snippet there about somebody and it piques my interest. At some point I become fascinated enough that I’d like to understand more. Specifically, there have […]

One of the pieces that comes to mind when I think of home education is the benefit to communities. I’m not referring to homeschool communities themselves, either in-person or online (those are of  great value too, but intentional community happens within any number of places like schools, churches and more), but to the natural, physical

* I wrote this post in the middle of May, in what now seems like a different time as far as world consciousness around racial and cultural climate. Although I begin with mentioning multi-culturalism, the intention was not to suggest everything is as it should be, because I already knew that was not true, but

As Kids Get Older … Is learning that is expressed through play still relevant as kids become older? Do we see differences in the way that “older kid” play is expressed depending on personality? In The Personality of Play – Part One, I wrote about how fun I’ve found it to watch the way different kids play